hoops
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hoops sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1poohs
- One letter away
- 9coops, hoods
What it means
- nouna game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh uw1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- dupes
- groups
- loops
- nincompoops
- poops
- recoups
- scoops
- snoops
- soups
- stoops
- swoops
- troops
- troupes
- whoops
- coupes
- drupes
- oops
- paratroops
- subgroups
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: poohs.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.